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[4573] disagreed with me. [4574] I if I once made up my mind not to keep the hangman
waiting the bloody flux itself would not stop me, I would get there on
all fours shitting out my entrails and chanting maledictions. [4575] Didn't I
tell you it's my brethren that have done for me.

[4576] But I shall not dwell upon this journey home, its furies and
treacheries. [4577] And I shall pass over in silence the fiends in human shape
and the phantoms of the dead that tried to prevent me from going ^getting home, in
obedience to Youdi's command. [4578] But one or two words nevertheless, for my
own edification and to prepare my soul to make an end. [4579] To begin with my
rare thoughts.

[4580] Certain questions of a theological nature preoccupied me strangely.
[4581] As for example.

[4582] 1. What value is to be attached to the theory that Eve sprang,
not from Adam's rib, but from a tumour in the fat of his leg (arse?)?

[4583] 2. Did the serpent crawl or, as Comestor affirms, walk upright?

[4584] 3. Did Mary conceive through the ear, as Augustine and Adobard
assert?

[4585] 4. How much longer are we to hang about waiting for ^[⁁]the anteⁱⁱchrist?

[4586] 5. Does it really matter which hand is employed to absterge the
podex?

[4587] 6. What is one to think of the Irish oe^ath sworn by the natives
with the right hand on the relics of the saints and the left on the
virile member?

[4588] 7. Does nature observe the sabbath?

[4589] 8. Is it true that the devils do not feel the pains of hell?

[4590] 9. The algebraic theology of Craig. [4591] What is one to think of this?

[4592] 10. Is it true that the infant Saint-Roch refused suck on Wednesdays
and Fridays?